Double Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft is looking to end her season on a high at the Sainsbury's IPC Grand Prix Final on August 24.

Double Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft is looking to end her season on a high at the Sainsbury’s IPC Grand Prix Final on August 24.

For the first time fans will have the chance to cheer on both their favourite Olympic and Paralympic champions as the ‘Super Sunday’ of athletics combines the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix and the Sainsbury’s IPC Grand Prix Final.

“Birmingham is going to be awesome. It will be my last race of the season and I want to put on a show for the fans by winning in a fast time,’’ said Cockcroft.

‘‘I won last year and I want to win again, especially as we’re racing on the same day as the Olympic athletes.’’

She added that she “loved” racing for the first time in this combined format in the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix in Glasgow, saying: “It was incredible competing alongside all of the big names in athletics and we get double the crowd and double the noise.”

Birmingham comes at the end of what has been a hard year for Cockroft, in which she took on racing long distance alongside sprinting.

“It has been tough juggling my first year at university with training for long distance and sprints,’’ she added. ‘‘It’s hard to combine studying and training and I can safely say I haven’t had the normal student experience.”

While she has finished the first year with top marks she has not yet met the tough racing targets she has set herself at the start of 2014.

Despite breaking four world records in four weeks, including the 800m and 1500m in her first serious attempts at the longer distances, Cockroft has unfinished business this season.

“I want to win the European Championship in Swansea next week as it’s the only title I’ve yet to win,’’ she said.

‘‘I’m up against stiff opposition and am fairly confident, although I do get nervous ahead of the 800m.”

Cockroft has added distance training and racing as the IPC World Championship rotate distances every four years and this will give her a chance to win another pair of gold medals at the 2015 championships.

“The idea is to give more athletes the chance to win medals as usually it’s too hard to win both the sprints and distances races. I’ve set myself the challenge of winning both,” she said.

“It is going to be tough to retain the world title next year and win the 800m, as I build up to becoming Paralympic Champion in Rio, but I will keep training hard to make sure I achieve it.”

Cockroft says the fans have a lot to look forward to at the Sainsbury’s IPC Grand Prix Final in Birmingham.

“Stef Reid is going to be amazing to watch after breaking the World Record at the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix in Glasgow and it is great to see David Weir still dominating on the track,’’ she said.

“Two years on the London 2012 legacy is still going strong. The Commonwealth Games and combining with the Olympic athletes in the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix events are giving the sport a boost as we build up to Rio 2016 and there are a lot of new girls coming through.”

* The Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix and Sainsbury’s IPC Grand Prix Final takes place at Alexander Stadium on Sunday 24th August. Tickets are available for both events via www.britishathletics.org.uk or by calling 08000 556056